Deborah Annetts

So What's Next? Living with the National Music Plan

Following studying PPE at Oxford University, Deborah Annetts trained as a solicitor and was a partner and head of employment law at the human rights firm, Stephens Innocent. Since 2001, Deborah has worked in the third sector as a Chief Executive. 

In May 2008, Deborah became Chief Executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) and has led the organisation in a programme of wide-ranging change, overhauling its infrastructure and developing its public affairs function.

Since July 2010, she has been Chair of the Music Education Council and is a trustee of the human rights charity, Fair Trials International, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO) and the Educational Recording Agency (ERA).